1. Mary Ann Shadd and Her Forefathers
Born in Wilmington, in 1823, she spent her life aiding everyone, from offered her family's shop as a shelter for fugitive slaves, to works as a teacher or tries the suffrage for women. Descending from a family of free African-American abolitionists, she was not the only member of her family in being a pioneer, also her nephew, Alfred Schmitz Shadd, was one of the first black teacher "among the 433 teachers employed in the territories' 366 school" (A. ... Equally important was Mary Ann's nephew, Alfred, who was a black pioneer teacher and "a great doctor.... Both ...
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